page_title: 2 Kings 19
section_title: Isaiah's Second Oracle and Jerusalem's libera-tion (19:20–37)
hierarchical_section_title: 2 Kings 19 / Isaiah's Second Oracle and Jerusalem's libera-tion (19:20–37)
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860. Deutsch: Holzschnitt aus "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860. Français&#160;: Gravure en bois pour «Die Bibel in Bildern», 1860.
context_page_description: 2 Kings 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. This chapter records the invasion of Assyrian to Judah during the reign of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, a part of the section comprising 2 Kings 18:1 20:21, with a parallel version in Isaiah 36–39.
context_section_description: The second response from Isaiah is much more detailed than his first, containing three oracles in Isaiah's message this time: 
  speaking against Sennacherib's arrogance and god-like pretentious, in a 'long taunting poem' (verses 21–28)
  offering a sign to Hezekiah that the word of God will come true (verses 29–31)
  promising that the siege will end as God will act for His own sake or for David's sake (verses 32–34)
  The  speech  has  an  ABCBA  structure, bracketed by an introductory and a concluding  formula  ('thus  says the  LORD—says  the  LORD'), containing a central message with a double assurance that the enemy shall not enter this city: his weapons will not harm Jerusalem and he shall retreat in failure. Verse 34 is thought to be a late-Deuteronomistic inclusion (cf. 1 Kings 11:12–13).
  The song of scorn in verses 21–28 that YHWH himself challenges the king of Assyria for his faulty theological logic: 
  the king boast about his power (verses 22-24; cf. Isaiah 10:7-10)
  although it was God who granted it to him (verses 25—27)
  now God will take it away from him (verse 28)
  The prophecy took an immediate effect: in one night, a plague-bringing angel kills 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in their camp (verse 35), forcing Sennacherib to retreat and never to return (verse 36b). The "great army" (2 Kings 18:17) was destroyed overnight, leaving behind dead bodies (cf. Exodus 14:30). Even Sennacherib's own (pseudo-)god "NIsroch" cannot protect him in his own temple (#Verse 37|verse 37).
caption: Jerusalem Delivered from Sennacherib, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld
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